SheetzuCacaPoopoo 2: Max Goes to the Dogs — A Brief Review
While hanging out at the bookstore the other day, I decided to head to the children’s section and read Joy Behar’s new book SheetzuCacaPoopoo 2: Max Goes to the Dogs, which she has mentioned on The View more than a few times.
The book has a similar message to her first book, SheetzuCacaPoopoo: My Kind of Dog, which is that you should not prejudge others. The first book saw Max being prejudged by the purebreds because he was a mutt and in this new book he is disliked by the bigger dogs at doggie daycare because he is small.
The big dogs are running things at the doggie daycare, making it a miserable place for Max and the other smaller breed dogs. The small dogs have a rebellion of sorts and try to reclaim the daycare for themselves. They also teach the large dogs that they can come in handy for things like getting into small spaces. Eventually the large dogs and the small dogs learn that they can all be friends.
Like the first book, the illustrations by Gene Barretta are beautiful and the dogs are all very cute. A good characteristic of a children’s book, though, is that they can be read over and over and still be interesting and I don’t know if this book has that kind of sustainability. Thus, I recommend you check it out from the library and see how much the kids like it before you spend any money on it. I would say the same for the first SheetzuCacaPoopoo book as well.
Joy Behar, The View, Sheetzucacapoopoo 2: Max Goes to the Dogs, Gene Barretta, SheetzuCacaPoopoo: My Kind of Dog
April 18th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Too bad Joy doesn’t practice what she is preaching and making money from…..her recent comments about Susan Boyle prove that. Fake.
April 19th, 2009 at 7:49 am
All 5 panelists on the View seem to be very self-absorbed. At one time I thought perhaps Joy was not, but she too is very self-absorbed.
JMO………from someone who no longer watches The View but reads the blog.
April 19th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
I agree MiamiVision.
Their endless self-promotions and self-congratulations leave me feeling dirty FOR THEM.
Books
Shows
Clothing
Performances
Hosting
Besides Whoopi’s UN duties, civil/gay rights protest and her rescued police horses – what have any of the others done to ‘give back’ a little of what has been generously bestowed upon them? What in particular has EH given, sponsored, honored, donated, hosted that can be classified as a worthy cause given that she hasn’t earned her spot in the lap of luxury?
Here they have all this airtime, a massive audience, and they never miss an opportunity to promote themselves for an extra buck.
April 19th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Thanks Winnie for the review.
April 19th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
While we do see celebs with their own TV shows doing other projects that are ‘mentioned’ in some cross marketing/promotion on said shows, it does not seem to be near as much as the sheer volume of blatant whoring out of ‘other’ promotions and money making ventures shoveled to The View’s audience in an endless, in-your-face, watered down talent, celebration of mediocrity, irresponsible, shameful, boring, desperate, dumbing down, numbing down,… way.
Plenty of ‘other’ money making projects, View? Thus The View audience receives more careless non-preparation, irresponsible slacker non-effort as gig of View host:
They just show up and collect a paycheck.
- Sherri Shepard admits at 2am on her twitter page, that she has not done any of her reading in preparation for the next day’s show.
- Barbara Walters exposes the truth that Whoopi just slumps over a table and sleeps during morning pre-show prep, while the other hosts get hair/makeup.
- Whoopi mispronounces Malia Obama’s name as Ma - LY - ah. Confuses Facebook with MySpace, by calling it My Book; FaceSpace.
When discussing timely governmental fiscal issues; all she can continually mentions as a sort of all purpose outrage, are her local and city taxes on her phone bill.
- E Hasselbeck is given the consistent easy job of resident reviewer of American Idol, as that is all she has to offer. And of course, its easy. She didn’t have to read, leave her home, nor exert much energy. Now and before her pregnancy. ABC conveniently supplies her with video clips.
- Sherri is given the same easy task, by covering Dancing With The Stars.
- Repetitive host schtick: Whoopi steals props during demonstration segments; Sherri shovels food in her mouth and thinks her bottomless libido is funny; Hasselbeck stares at the table when trying to state opinion as fact to seem like she has well earned gravitas while she crams in the a.m. by scanning Hannity’s daily fax of talking points. Joy, while well read and intelligent, descends into old jokes to derail a topic too often.
- Fridays - We know. Sex Surveys.Why ?
Because they taped that show on Wednesday afternoon so ‘hot topics cannot be ‘hot’ nor ‘topical’ ….and they all get a 3 day weekend as Thursday’s live show was their last of the week. We in NY/NJ/CT get it: you are copying the Broadway show Wed. matinee schedule - 2 shows on Wednesdays - - but Broadway works 3 times as hard. They do 8 shows a week; most work 6 days days with only Mondays off and get paid less.
When covering real news, the View panel can blur facts, be without facts, lie, and lazily rely on just spewing their own opinions to fill air time.
And there are 5 of them. Several can ‘coast’, while the others talk more on any given day.
It all like showing up for the English Lit final exam, when all you’ve read the whole semester was the Cliff notes, hastily read the night before, on Moby Dick. Oh, yeah, it was written a long time ago by some guy named Melville; it’s about a whale.
Sample Hot Topic: They found out the earth was round. View Host replies: “Oh, well I still envision it as flat. That works for me. Done. Next hot topic.”
Due to the nations’ fiscal crisis, recession, job loss, we are have all been faced with examples of conspicuous consumption, have worked on appreciating what we have, making the most of our jobs, conserving where we can.
So View - why don’t you? Earn your salaries; work harder; work smarter.
You owe your huge national audience much more. Such a waste, such a waste.
April 19th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
W. O. W. - deep breath - HAHAHAHAHA
THAT was good Diane. You are the wordMaster.
April 19th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
lol lol lol - …it was “SpaceBook” - LOL
April 19th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Speaking of “conspicuous consumption” my gut is ready to tear open. I decided to do what any recession-respecting mom might do by making Hamburger Helper for din din.
Between Diane’s post and the fake ‘cheese’ from the Gloved One – I came close to losing it. THANKS BUSH…and Elisabeth. lol
And what Diane said View - do your homework for Pete’s sake. Let’s talk torture on Monday.
April 19th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Thank you, Diane from N.J. for accurately portraying the rage that I feel when I watch this stupid show. Again, why do I watch? Because it used to be good and I am eternally optimistic, I guess!
P.S. I jokingly call the social networking sites a congomerated “FaceSpace” to be funny when I’m talking to my children, but I mean to make the mistake for the comedic value. Mostly it’s wasted on my chillins, but I still find me amusing!!!
April 19th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
#3 Kelly, yes of course EH attends “charity” functions, donating herself, for nothing but the furthering of her own career.
#5 Diane, Brilliant, your entire text, and also, we viewers do deserve so much better.
#7 Kelly, and #9 Bern, LOL! Here, I call it “Spaceface”!
April 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
#5 Diane -great post.
Someone asked on another site what could be worse than SS and her birthday cake challenge coming up - I think that it would be when she goes to the Prom.
I read there is going to be a show/segment on diabetes, which SS has. I definitely will not tune in for that. After SS’s gluttony, cracking jokes about ribs would go well with a segment on healthy food, and her constant comments on her twitter about In and Out birger, m&ms, Jeffrey’s cookies, her cookies, eating 1/2 of a pkg of family size ruffles I think she is a hypocrite for hosting such a segment.
Gotta agree, WG seems the only one actively involved in good causes. Never hear about BW or EH and if SS and JB do any it seems to be for the exposure or being able to MC it to add to their resume.
SS is also coming out with a book! So this show, movies, 30 Rock, new pilot. Lot’s of time for Jeffrey……now that is also endlessly twittering.
Oh, and Joy signed up with Twitter as well. Never been as disappointed in Joy as her comments about Susan Boyle.
April 19th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
DianeInNJ #4 - you spoke for many of us - summed it up THOROUGHLY in your post!! Well thought out and so well organized as always!! A great thinker/writer you are.
Thanks for taking the time *S*
April 20th, 2009 at 7:21 am
While I agree that Joy’s comment about Susan Boyle sounded rude, I think she was trying to point out the hypocrisy of the entire episode. People watch these shows that judge people on the very least important aspects of their being, but then are SHOCKED, SHOCKED I TELL YOU, when a less than pretty woman opens her mouth and sounds good.
BTW, in the interest of full disclosure, I think Susan Boyle has a nice voice, not fabulous, but nice. People are crying over it because they have pre-conceived notions of what sort of sound should emit from such a woman, not because her voice is a choir of angels. It’s a sad commentary on our western culture that a chubby 40-something is judged as less valuable than a skinny, young thing…and I say that for all of the substantial women of a certain age. Yeah, we can look pretty and sound pretty. SHOCKING!
It’s a shockingly beautiful morning in America!
April 20th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Bern #13, ITA.
When I first saw the clip of Susan Boyle coming out on the stage, I cringed because I suspected it was just another setup to mock and disparage another woman for not being “beautiful”. And, yes she does have a pretty voice. But, I wonder if someone else had that same voice, would those judges have looked so shocked? Would the audience have been on their feet, shouting and clapping? I really don’t think so. It was as though they were thinking, “How can someone so plain have talent?” Wake up, people.
April 20th, 2009 at 7:45 am
As always, I thank you all dear ladies from the bottom of my heart for reading my ’screeds’, often too long, and with too many typos. But to write them is indeed therapy - and cheaper - - besides, my former good therapist no longer accepts my insurance…but that’s another conversation. So I need this and am so grateful to you all - and Rain’s site too.
Do I owe you all a co-pay?
April 20th, 2009 at 8:28 am
#15, no you don’t owe us anything, but to take us seriously when we go on with similar rants! Thanks for helping us come to terms with our own irritation!
April 20th, 2009 at 8:51 am
Will do , Bern.
And excellent point about the Susan Boyle story.
April 20th, 2009 at 8:53 am
I agree with those of us who feel Susan Boyle has become a hit,based on all the wrong reasons. I had the same feeling, when I first saw her. I was prepared for everyone to boo and so forth. I think Joy was expressing what many of us were thinking. It is so sad. But wait……. soon you will see a new hair do, more trendy clothes, make-up , etc. It almost feels like I was “punked”.
I agree with #14-#13-
April 21st, 2009 at 7:02 am
Rosie has a lovely post about Susan Boyle. It is worth the “read”.